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The Old Stile Press-- the next ten years : a bibliography, 2000-2010 / Nancy Campbell, Frances McDowall, Nicolas McDowall.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Old Stile 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Nancy, author.
- McDowall, Frances, author.
- McDowall, Nicolas, author, book designer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Old Stile Press--Bibliography--Catalogs.
- Old Stile Press.
- Book industries and trade--Wales--Llandogo--History--21st century.
- Book industries and trade.
- Publishers and publishing--Wales--Llandogo--History--21st century.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Llandogo (Wales)--Imprints.
- Llandogo (Wales).
- Wales--Llandogo.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Bibliographies.
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 135 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Sheffield] : Printed in UK by J.W. Northend Limited.
- Place of Publication:
- [Llandogo] : The Old Stile Press, [2010]
- Notes:
- "This book was designed, photographed, and laid out, during 2010, by Nicolas McDowall at The Old Stile Press, Catchmays Court, Llandogo, Monmouthshire ... UK. It was printed in UK by J.W. Northend Limited ... The edition is restricted to 1000, numbered copies. This is number [blank]"--Colophon.
- "Some copies of this book, perhaps including this one, have one or more sections of paper different from the rest. The paper merchants have apologised profusely for their error. Following a lifetime of concern not to waste the earth's resources, we have finally taken the decision not to pulp this beautifully printed edition. In the same spirit we hope that you will accept this falling from perfection. Frances & Nicolas McDowall"--Label on page [3] of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 9 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in pencil) of a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. See colophon.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has laid in leaf printed by Nicholas McDowall at The Old Stile Press with 13 lines from Gavin Douglas's translation of Vergil's Aeneid (1553) with image made by Eric Gill for the Golden Cockerel Press edition of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (1927), printed by McDowall from the original woodblock.
- ISBN:
- 9780907664857
- 0907664857
- OCLC:
- 692286503
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